Author Archives: Hercules

About Hercules

I am a professor working at DSV-Stockholm University, I perform research in natural language processing and information retrieval, the last ten years I have been working on text mining on electronic patient records to build useful tools to improve health. Hercules homepage

Rebecka Weegar’s defence of her PhD-thesis “Mining Clinical Text in Cancer Care”

Rebecka Weegar defended today January 27, 2020, successfully her PhD thesis , with the title Mining Clinical Text in Cancer Care. Opponent were Associate professor Lilja Øvrelid at Department of Informatics University of Oslo.

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Nailing of Rebecka Weegar’s thesis

Rebecka Weegar nailed today her PhD-thesis with the title Mining clinical text in cancer care.

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Kunstig intelligens i helsetjenesten Bodø 18-19 juni 2019

Jag är inbjuden talare till konferensen Kunstig intelligens i helsetjenesten i Bodø, Norge, 18-19 juni 2019. Bodø ligger norr om Polcirkeln. Konferensen har över 320 deltagare från hela Norge både inom forskning, hälsovård, administration och företag men också inbjudna deltagare … Continue reading

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Erasmus+ at Athens University of Economics and Business

I have been at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) for a month teaching a course called Clinical Text Mining at their Master program in Data Science. This is an exchange through Erasmus+. I have enjoyed it a lot … Continue reading

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SLTC 2018 Språkteknologikonferens 7-9 nov 2018

The Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2018 ) 7–9 November 2018 går av stapeln på Juristerna hus på Frescati på Stockholms universitet. DSV är med och organiserar den med tillsammans Lingvistiken på Stockholms universitet. Läs pressrelease om nättroll, “fake news” och … Continue reading

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Andrea Andrenuccis Dissertation successfully defended on Oct 29, 2018

Andrea Andrenucci defended successfully his dissertation with the title Using Language Technology to Mediate Medical Information on Health Portals – User Studies and Experiments on Monday Oct 29 2018. Opponent was Dr. Diego Molla-Aliod, from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.

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Nailing of Andrea Andrenucci’s PhD thesis

Today Andrea Andrenucci nailed his PhD thesis. (Spikning av avhandling)

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The Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2018) at Frescati, 7-9 nov 2018

Dear all! Don’t miss to register for  The Seventh Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC 2018) at Frescati, 7-9 Nov 2018. Interesting talks as well as exciting panels in Clinical text mining and Fake news and troll detection with invited experts. … Continue reading

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